Making Homeless Mats Out Of Recycled Plastic Bags

Are you still making the homeless sleeping mats.

Making homeless mats out of recycled plastic bags.

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. July 29 2019 at 11 00 am. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. The sad thing is there s such a need for them said schmedeman.

Out city has placed 4 4 boards front to back on the park benches where the homeless sleep to stop them. Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. By collecting plastic bags and crocheting them in to sleeping mats you can give a homeless veteran a soft place to lay his or her head and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.

Between 500 and 700 plastic bags are used to make one mercy mat. They need something to sleep on. In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people. Department of housing and urban development.

It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. We use those bags just. Made of 100 recycled plastic bags. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

In december the u s. In this video i demonstrate how to make a sleeping mat with recyclable grocery bags. All you need is a pair of scissors crochet hook and chained grocery bag. The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain.

You take recycled plastic grocery bags or just any plastic bags and you cut them into strips and you tie those strips together and that makes this thing called plarn plastic bag yarn president and club founder shelby tillema. Do not place near open flame or heat source.